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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Spring and Summer 1950s Fashion

I just got back from Hawaii with visit to Oahu, Kauai, and Hilo on the Big Island visiting family and friends. I should say my body is back but my mind and spirit still seems to be in Hawaii. How long does it take to acclimate back to daily chores and weather. so with my spirit still feeling strongly attached to the beautiful tropical breezes, ocean sand and amazing sunsets here are a few summer styles tantalize.

I love this swimsuit and the matching skirt is divine. I often worn a skirt over my swimsuit too!

The white linen middy dress, a streak of the hottest new color in town. No schoolgirl's look, the collar is a high loose turtle neck, the shoulder are cut-away, and it's cut to cling like jersey. $29.95

The printed empire dress, the dress with the high sweet waist. The print is one of the new wide-opened ones - a blue sky flecked with black and white wings. Silk shantung, $45. The bamboo mailbox, a line-for-line translation from the original. It's very closely woven plastic bamboo and very convincing take-off. By Ronay from $10.95 to $15

Two very pretty lemon frocks with hip and bodice waist smocking in Arnel and cotton, $30

Love these cool spring and summer fashions...And, I should show you the Hawaiian fabric I bought while I was in Hawaii, can't decide what styles to make with them, I only got 2 yards of each so the full skirted dresses are out. I need to take pictures then I'll get them posted, maybe I'll find some patterns I like to show too, guess I had better get to looking through my pattern stash. Until then...

2 comments:

I love all the clothing. I love the bathing suit and skirt. I am a seamstress so make sure you share all patterns you can get your hands on or find to share. I can't wait to make some of these dresses.

Sounds wonderful! I would love to see what you make. I have hundreds of vintage patterns. I am slowly listing them, except the ones I am keeping in my Artfire shop, I listed the Advance, mail order, Vogue and am almost done with the Simplicity ones, next will be McCall and Butterick. Then I'll go back and weed out a few more from my collection. My shop is Penelope Rose on Artfire.com

About Me

I love vintage and fashion! You can find me creating vintage reproduction dresses using one of my many vintage patterns and fabric from my enormousstash. Traveling is another love of mine and occasionally I post about some of the great trips we have taken, love taking photo of these trips. And in between my pastimes I'll be listing some lovely finds in my Etsy and Artfire shops and provide some warm and loving caregiving to my clients. Cheers!